“Hip-Hop hasn’t ‘gone global.’ It has been global, or international at least, since its birth in the very local neighborhoods of the South Bronx, Washington Heights and Harlem.” […]
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE: Hip-Hop Dance Exchange, Part I
Hip-Hop Roundtable Discussion at New York University. From L to R: Dr. Joseph G. Schloss, Pop Master Fabel, Afrika Bambaataa, Alien Ness and his wife, Sabrina. All photos […]
ART: BLACK AND COLLECTING, PART II
Photo of Michelle J. Wilkinson, PhD by frank talk This is the second post in a two-part series about Black collectors and curators in the Diamond District. I […]
ART: Black and Collecting, Part I
All photos by frank talk. This post is the first in a two-part series of interviews with some of the District’s flyest Black art collectors and curators A […]
Theatre Review: So The Arrow Flies
“Life undulates very oddly,” begins one of the four characters played by Esther K. Chae, the self-declared “creator, performer and polymathic artist” of her one-woman show, So The […]
FEATURE: Wall Lords Asia
While the results for Wall Lords Asia unfold before international viewers and make us feast on an altogether different level of script-ability, this competition is also revealing itself […]
FEATURE: GRAFFIT’ ASIA
Far far across many a wall, great and small … well far away from where I sit counting … runs the great wall of Shenzhen in China. It […]
Gallery Tour: Stolen Space, Brick Lane, London
If you’re a street art newbie as I am, circling in on the world of graffiti, and if you’re looking for the results of aerosol-ed love bombs in […]
Designer To Watch: Adam Kimmel
NAME: Adam Kimmel Reppen: New York Occupation: Fashion Designer Crew: his wife actress LeeLee Sobieski and baby daughter Louisanna Ray Kimmel Web: www.adamkimmel.com Quote: —“I […]
LIVE B-BOY BBQ 2010, Philly
On Saturday 06.12.10 graffiti artists, djs, emcees, bboys and bgirls from all over gathered on a roped off block to celebrate hip hop: exchanging ideas, listen to great […]